Coupling Mesoscale Modelling with a Simple Urban Model: The Lisbon Case Study

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 441-457

  Solazzo, Efisio ^a   Di Sabatino, Silvana ^b   Aquilina, Noel ^c   Dudek, Agnes ^d   Britter, Rex ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neighbourhood scale; Spatially averaged profiles; Urban canopy; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; PARAMETERIZATION; THERMAL POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; COST EFFECTIVE; DOWN-SCALING; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; MEAN WIND SPEED; MEAN-WINDS; MESOSCALE MODELLING; NEIGHBOURHOOD; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; PARAMETERISATION; PORTUGAL; RUNNING TIME; SPATIALLY-AVERAGED PROFILES; SUBMODELS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THERMAL FORCING; URBAN AREAS; URBAN CANOPIES; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN MODEL; URBAN SURFACES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; HEAT ISLAND; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; URBAN AREA; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; LISBON; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84983726696     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9536-6     Document Type: Article

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